Reminiscent of the events of Redfurn, Australian filth (aka police) in Queensland seized and kidnapped a 22 year old Aborigine who later "fell ill" while imprisoned. Members of the Aboriginal community rose up and sought to free the man first from the police station and later from the health clinic to which he was moved. Unfortunately, they proved unsuccessful, only trashing a couple of police cars.
The state has now declared a 2km radius around the police station an "emergency zone", a softer version of martial law by the sounds of it, which gives police powers to commandeer resources, exclude people from the area (I assume this means anyone looking a bit too black) and various other "extra powers".
The Australian media, however, having only last week made the transition from velcro to grown-up shoes, couldn't quite figure out what might have prompted the attempt at popular justice ("riot").
In other news, Guantanamo prison is only the tip of the iceberg with 400 of an estimated 14,000 prisoners held by the U.S., the U.S. made a precision strike in Somalia killing only 27 innocent people this time, and here in NZ the class war continues as landlords (and the government) seek to publicly shame "bad" tenants through a new website.
This last bit is especially annoying personally as friends are currently being kicked out of their house because the bourgeois scum — sorry, landlord — is seeking to renovate the place so he can charge higher rent. Of course, the law is hardly any defence, giving my friends only a slight reprieve with a 90 day buffer. I think some proletarian justice is due...
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